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Department begins formal review of speech and theater endorsements; Midland receives provisional authorization
Summary
The Nebraska Department of Education told the State Board June 6 it has provisionally approved a theater endorsement program at Midland University and is pursuing formal regulatory revisions that could reintroduce standalone speech and theater endorsements.
At the June 6 State Board of Education meeting, Brad Dirksen, administrator of the department's Office of Accreditation, Certification and Approval, summarized concerns raised by teachers and stakeholders about pathways for speech and theater educators and described the department's steps toward regulatory change.
Dirksen told the board that historically Nebraska had separate speech and theater subject and field endorsements but moved away from narrowly focused subject endorsements in the early 2010s. “Prospective speech or theater teachers were required to earn another…
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